Gabrielle The Bard

Name: Gabrielle Age: Twenty something Place Of Birth: Potedeia Parents: Herodotus & Hecuba Siblings: Lila Offspring: Hope (deceased) Husband: Perdicas (deceased)

We First meet Gabrielle, when she has been captured by a number of Draco's warriors. Who intend to take her and the other girls of the village including her sister off to the slave markets. She is rescued by Xena, a former warlord now seeking to make amends for the sins of her past. Fascinates by this dark warrior, Gabrielle follows her in the hope of joining her journeys across the land. Gabrielle is the older sister and was raised in the village Poteidaia. She is reasonably well educated and fancies herself as a travelling bard, telling tales of great deeds to an audience. She is betrothed to a villager, Perdicus who she does not find any great attraction to at first. When Xena saves her and her sister from the men of the warlord Draco, she becomes entralled with the excitment of Xena's life and leaves home to follow Xena and see the mighty deeds for herself. At first Xena considers her as her daugther and a nuisense but over time a close friendship develops and Xena comes to rely on Gabrielle to help her see the good things. When Gabrielle tries to protect an amazon princess who is under attack by archers, the Amazon wills Gabrielle her status as an Amazon Princess. After Gabrielle and Xena become embroiled in a struggle to stop a warlord provoking war between the Centaurs and the Amazons, Gabrielle ends up as Queen of the Amazons. As part of this, Ephiny, an Amazon, trains her in the use of the fighting staff and Gabrielle becomes well practiced in the art of using it to deflect attackers. She favours it because it is a defensive weapon and allows her to defend herself without taking a life. When their travels take them to the besieged city of Troy, Gabrielle is reunited with the man who was to be her husband, Perdicus. He's now a soldier in the Trojan army and very different from the dull farmer he was when we first met him. Although their ways part after Troy falls to Menaleus, Gabrielle's feeling for Perdicus have changed considerably. Soon thereafter, Gabrielle has a crisis of confidence when she freezes during an attack by bandits and she returns home to Poteidaia, only to find the village in great trouble. After  sorting things out, she returns to Xena reassured of her usefulness. After further, adventures, she and Xena meet up with Perdicus yet again and Gabrielle decides somewhat precipitously to marry him, and together they head off home. On the way they are intercepted by Callisto, who has just escaped from prison, who when foiled by Xena in her attempt tp kill Gabrielle goes on to kill Perdicus. Gabrielle finds her resolve never to take a life severely strained and attempts to go up against Callisto by herself. During a visit to Britannia with Xena, Gabrielle becomes pregant with the offspring of the one great evil, Dahak and looses her blood innocence when she's tricked into murdering a priestess. After her child Hope is born, Xena becomes obessed with killing  her, leading Gabrielle to hide her in a basket and pretends she killed Hope herself. Later Gabrielle meets Hope again, who is in league with Callisto, and who kills Xena's son Solan. This finally convinces Gabrielle that she must kill her daughter, which she does with Poison. Although Hope dies and is cremated, she manages to come back and later hatches from a cocoon as a mature woman looking identical to her mother. She is finally killed. Gabrielle and Xena go to India and Gabrielle goes throught a stage. In which she decides to give up fighting and to love everyone. When Caesar puts a high Price on Xena. Xena decides to end this once and for all. Xena is about to kill Caesar when Callisto saves him. She tells Xena to give up her warrior life and the vision of Gabrielle and Xena being hanged on cross with not come true. Xena turns it down. Meanwhile Gabrielle and a group of other people are captured by Roman guards. Xena comes and rescues them. While fighting their way out. Callisto throws Xena's chakram at Xena's back and breaks it. Gabrielle in order to save Xena, starts killing as many man as possible. Xena and Gabrielle are taken and hanged on the cross. They both desend to heaven.